I'm working on my portfolio site and having trouble getting my divs to size together.
Here it is: I have one body div, inside there are two child divs.
The body div should have max-height 100%, max-width: 100% so that it doesn't exceed the browser window.
The left div contains an image which I want to scale to the parent body div (max-height 100%, max-width 70%).
The right div contains text about the image, it needs to scale to the height of the left div (there is also footer that sits at the bottom of this div).
This shouldn't be so hard, its almost working but right now my image container (left div) is not being contained to the body div.
html,
body {
height: 100%;
}
.Info {
float: left;
width: 25%;
padding-left: 15px;
padding-top: 10px;
/*margin-left: 78%;*/
border-left: 1px black solid;
/*position: absolute;*/
}
.InfoText p {
margin-top: -10px;
}
div img {
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
box-shadow: 5px 5px 15px #888888;
}
.ImageContainer {
float: left;
height: 100%;
max-width: 70%;
padding-right: 15px;
position: relative
}
section.ImageContainer img {
float: left;
object-fit: cover;
}
#SideQuote {
margin-top: 30px;
}
.StuffInBody {
position: relative;
padding-top: 15px;
float: left;
display: flex;
}
footer p {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0%;
margin: 0;
}
<div class="StuffInBody">
<div class="ImageContainer">
<img class="contained" src="images/TheGMODebate copy.jpg" alt="" />
</div>
<div class="Info">
<div class="InfoText">
<p>ILLUSTRATION</p>
<p>Title: <em>The GMO Debate</em>
</p>
<p>Media: Gouache</p>
<div id="SideQuote">
<p class="ClickToEnlarge">Full screen image click here.
</p>
</div>
<footer>
<p>© Brooke Weiland 2015</p>
</footer>
</div>
</div>
</div>
It's very hard to make a reliable interface using floats.
It changes default behaviour and put your element outside of the flux.
You should be able to do what you want using only flex.
The property box-sizing: border-box also makes miracles (margin and padding easier to manage).
Also, the object-fit property is not enough supported by browsers to be used now IMHO.
http://caniuse.com/#feat=object-fit
Related
For reporting purposes I want a div report-canvas with a fixed height in mm:
.report-canvas {
height: 335mm;
min-height: 335mm;
max-height: 335mm;
}
A page has this structure:
<div class="a4">
<div class="header"></div>
<div class="report-canvas"></div>
<div class="footer"></div>
</div>
This works fine when .report-canvas doesn't have any child elements. But when I start to add h2's, table's and other div's, then the footer is pushed down outside of the page and the report-canvas is too big. How can I force report-canvas to always have the same size regardless of child elements?
This is the CSS of the other elements:
.a4 {
page-break-before:always;
clear: both;
margin: 0 auto;
border: 1px solid #888888;
width: 250mm;
height: 365mm;
}
.header {
padding-bottom: 10px;
height: 35px;
}
.footer {
padding-top: 10px;
height: 25px;
}
You can either use overflow: hidden or overflow: scroll on report-canvas
EDIT: The problem is solved, so thanks to everyone who helped!
Original post:
So I am trying to put three divs next to each other (until thus far this part has been successful) with the third and last div to like go to attach to the bottom of the divs, which I have no clue how to do this.
How can I put the third div to attach to the bottom of the middle div and stay within the container?
To show you, I made a quick example. Something like this:
The black colour in the image is the 'body'.
The grey is a container div I put the three other divs in.
Each other box represents a div with what I want them to do and how approx. I want them to be positioned of one another.
I hope this can be done only using html and css. I would appreciate any help.
So far I have this as html for the divs:
#nav,
#textarea,
#contactallpages {
vertical-align: top;
display: inline-block;
*display: inline;
}
#containerpage {
position: relative;
margin: auto;
padding-top: 5%;
padding-bottom: 5%;
background-color: black;
height: 100%;
width: 70%;
}
#centercontainer {
background-color: lightblue;
width: 75%;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 2%;
}
#nav {
float: left;
background: #aaaaaa;
height: 50%;
width: 15%;
padding: 1%;
}
#textarea {
display: inline-block;
background: #cccccc;
height: 70%;
width: 64%;
padding: 1%;
}
#contactallpages {
background: #bbbbbb;
position: absolute;
width: 15%;
padding: 1%;
bottom: 0;
}
<div id="containerpage">
<div id="centercontainer">
<div id="nav">
<ul>1
</ul>
<ul>2
</ul>
<ul>3
</ul>
</div>
<div id="textarea">
<header>
<h1>Welcome</h1>
</header>
<p>
Text text more text.
</p>
<p>
And more text.
</p>
</div>
<div id="contactallpages">
Random small textbox
<br>More small text.
</div>
</div>
</div>
The way you should lay this out is one container div and 3 children div's set to display: inline-block;
Using display: inline-block; will position all the div's next to each other and allows you to use the vertical-align property.
Now all you would need to do is set the proper vertical-alignment for each of the child div's. You can also set the height to the container div (#myPage) and that is the height that vertical-align will use to determine the positioning.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/vertical-align
#myPage div {
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
}
#centerFold {
height: 200px;
vertical-align: middle;
background-color: yellow;
}
#navBar, #contact{
height: 100px;
}
#navBar {
vertical-align: top;
background-color: red;
}
#contact {
vertical-align: bottom;
background-color: blue;
}
<div id="myPage">
<div id="navBar">
</div>
<div id="centerFold">
</div>
<div id="contact">
</div>
</div>
Try out flexbox if you do not have too much to worry about backward compatibility. My time at the moment doesn't allow to elaborate, but the essential part would be
#centercontainer {display: flex}
#contactallpages {align-self: flex-end}
Be aware though that some prefixing will be necessary for older browsers and this is only the standards-compliant solution. It does everything you want and you can forget about floating. Adding a
#textarea {flex-grow: 1}
would even allow the center to grow not only in height but in width also.
I have a 3 column layout which I'm creating using inline-block divs. The left and right columns are fixed widths but the inner column is to hold dynamic content and should expand horizontally as required by it's content width.
That's easy enough... the tricky part is that when the browser window is smaller (horizontally) than the width of the left, right and expanded middle divs, I would like the middle div to scroll and the side columns to stay fixed. In other words, the middle div's size should shrink and grow with window resize but should not grow beyond the available space.
Simply laying out the divs looks like this
https://jsfiddle.net/xzjp5xef/1/
HTML:
<div id="container">
<div id="lcol">
left
</div>
<div id="midcol">
<div id="spacer">
150px spacer
</div>
</div>
<div id="rightcol">
right
</div>
</div>
CSS:
div {
height:200px;
border-style:solid;
display: inline-block;
border-width: 1px;
vertical-align: top;
}
#container{
white-space: nowrap;
}
#lcol {
background-color:blue;
width: 100px;
}
#midcol {
background-color: yellow;
overflow-x: auto;
}
#spacer {
min-width: 150px;
margin: 10px;
height: 20px;
}
#rightcol {
background-color: red;
width:100px;
}
The point of the "spacer" div is to represent the dynamic content which in this case I've fixed to 150px plus padding. So in this case I want the divs to lay out the way they do in the above fiddle, but then when the window is shrunk horizontally, I want the middle div to scroll and the left and right divs to remain fully visible.
That fails because then the window gets a scroll bar but the middle panel remains the same width and the right hand div disappears into the scrolled region.
My next attempt was using absolute positioning
https://jsfiddle.net/n4zrLqh2/
I fixed the left div to the left and the right div to the right and set the middle div's right and left properties. This is a neat trick which allows the middle div to stretch and take up all available space. This works nicely but doesn't create the effect I'm after when the window is big - because I don't want the middle column to expand further than is necessary to contain its content.
In the end I've solved this with javascript but would much prefer a CSS solution.
Edit: To help others see what I'm trying to achieve, here's the complete javascript solution (which I'd prefer to achieve with pure CSS):
HTML:
<div id="lcol">left</div>
<div id="midcol">
<div id="spacer">150px spacer</div>
</div>
<div id="rightcol">right</div>
CSS:
div {
height:200px;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
margin: 0px;
float:left;
}
body {
white-space: nowrap;
margin:0px;
max-height: 200px;
}
#lcol {
background-color:blue;
width: 100px;
}
#midcol {
background-color: yellow;
overflow-x: auto;
}
#spacer {
min-width: 150px;
height: 20px;
background-color: gray;
margin: 5px;
}
#rightcol {
background-color: red;
width:100px;
}
JAVASCRIPT (with jquery)
function adjustSizes() {
// Sizes of middle divs are dynamic. Adjust once
// built or whenever the viewport resizes
//
var $leftDiv = $('#lcol')
var $milddleDiv = $('#midcol');
var $rightDiv = $('#rightcol');
// 1. Resize middle div to available viewport space
var maxBodyWidth = $(window).innerWidth() - ($leftDiv.outerWidth() + $rightDiv.outerWidth());
$milddleDiv.css('maxWidth', maxBodyWidth);
}
$(window).resize(function () {
adjustSizes();
});
And the fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/bjmekkgj/2/
I think setting max-width of spacer will solve your problem in case content increases.
Set max-width to calc(100vw - 200px) if all margin and padding are 0. Otherwise adjust the value 200px taking margin, padding into account.
I have created a plunker. Please check if it solves your issue. Try checking after running plunker in spearate window
http://plnkr.co/edit/WG9v0MyiD2hiaZrOA3Yw?p=preview
For the one example you provided, since the left and right columns are positioned absolutely, you should take up the space somehow. I used padding on the middle column, then nested a "content" block inside that represents the visible part of the middle column. Then, I put overflow-x: auto; on the new content block and set a max-width on the overall container to force the new block to shrink.
(In previous edits, I was attempting to do this same thing but with floats instead of absolutely positioned divs)
* { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }
#container {
box-sizing: border-box;
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
max-width: 100%;
border: 1px solid black;
height: 200px;
}
.column {
box-sizing: border-box;
height: 100%;
}
#left {
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
width: 100px;
border-right: 1px solid black;
background: blue;
}
#mid {
border: none;
padding: 0px 100px;
}
#mid > .content {
box-sizing: border-box;
background-color: yellow;
overflow-x: auto;
height: 100%;
}
#spacer {
width: 150px;
height: 20px;
}
#right {
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
top: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
width: 100px;
border-left: 1px solid black;
background: red;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="left" class="column">
left
</div>
<div id="mid" class="column">
<div class="content">
<div id="spacer">
150px spacer
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="right" class="column">
right
</div>
</div>
...and in JSFiddle form
flexbox can do that.
div {
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
}
#container {
height: 200px;
display: flex;
}
#lcol {
background-color: blue;
width: 100px;
}
#midcol {
background-color: yellow;
flex: 1;
overflow-x: auto;
}
#rightcol {
background-color: red;
width: 100px;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="lcol">
left
</div>
<div id="midcol">
</div>
<div id="rightcol">
right
</div>
</div>
JSfiddle Demo (showing overflow effect).
Support is IE10 and up.
Try setting the middle div to have a max width with a percentage so it will get thinner with the screen size:
.midcol {
max-width: 25%;
}
I put a value for the max-width in there for an example, but you can change the value.
Here's my Fiddle. This is for an information kiosk style layout so I'm trying to make sure all content is visible on the screen. I'm also trying to account for a few different screen sizes so I'm using all height/width in percentage.
I want all of the .menu_item divs match the same height as #panel but the overall height on the .menu_item divs adjust as page width changes. If you take a look at the bottom border of .menu_item:last-child, and compare it with the bottom border of #panel, you'll see what I mean.
My goal with all of the .menu_item divs is to have 2% of total the #menu height between each .menu_item and then then the .menu_item divs would all have the same height and fill the rest of the content area of #menu (but not exceed it).
I'm looking to implement a solution only using html/css.
HTML:
<body>
<div id="menu">
<div id="item1" class="menu_item"></div>
<div id="item2" class="menu_item"></div>
<div id="item3" class="menu_item"></div>
<div id="item4" class="menu_item"></div>
</div>
<div id="weather">
<div id="panel"></div>
</div>
</body>
CSS:
#menu, #weather {
box-sizing: border-box;
height: 100vh;
margin: 0;
padding: 2%;
}
#menu {
float: left;
width: 65%;
padding-right: 1%;
}
#weather {
float: right;
width: 35%;
padding-left: 1%;
}
.menu_item {
width: 100%;
height: 23.5%;
margin-top: 2%;
margin-bottom: 2%;
border: solid black 0.2em;
}
.menu_item:first-child {
margin-top: 0;
}
.menu_item:last_child {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
#panel {
border: solid black 0.2em;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
Percentages in margin/padding are percentages of width, even for top and bottom values. (Similar question on SO, spec.)
If your goal is to have everything on the screen anyway, maybe you're interested in the vh unit, 1% of viewport height, supported in many modern browsers.)
I have some divs holidng images I want to display.
They are within a centered container.
This container has a variable width so depending on your browser size you have either 3 or 4 images in a row before they go flow into the next row. I want to have thoses images centered in the container elment. My problem now is, that this container element is always 100% so but the inside image divs do not fill it. I need the inner divs to expand the out div, so it is only as wide as all the 3 or 4 images and their margin.
My html is:
<div id='team'>
<div class='item-container'>
<div class='item'>
<img src='small.jpg' alt='' />
</div>
</div>
<div class='item-container'>
<div class='item'>
<img src='small.jpg' alt='' />
</div>
</div>
</div>
My css is:
#team{
margin: 20px 0px;
padding: 20px 0;
position: relative;
float: left;
}
#team .item-container{
position: relative;
float: left;
width: 230px;
height: 180px;
margin: 2%;
}
Anyone any ideas? If you do not get what I mean, please ask so I can describe it in more detail. Thanks in advance.
You can switch to using display: inline-block instead of float: left on the .items, and then text-align: center on #team to center:
See: http://jsfiddle.net/gGc76/8/ - (be sure to try resizing the window)
You possibly don't want float: left on #team, but I'm not sure what you're doing.
#team {
margin: 20px 0;
padding: 20px 0;
position: relative;
float: left;
background: #ccc;
text-align: center
}
#team .item-container {
vertical-align: top;
display: inline-block;
/* if you need ie7 support */
*display: inline;
zoom: 1;
position: relative;
width: 230px;
height: 180px;
margin: 2%;
background: #eee
}